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Quotes from What Entropy Means to Me — George Alec Effinger

1947–2002 United States

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Proper knowledge defeats the shouting minions of emotion.

What Entropy Means to Me (1972)

I see unhealthy signs of a new regime of religiosity and conservatism.

What Entropy Means to Me (1972)

Turmoil and revolution in their best guises serve to tear down ancient and meaningless customs, in favor of practical social reform.

What Entropy Means to Me (1972)

There are more strains of courage than merely facing a sword.

What Entropy Means to Me (1972)

I do not attempt here to derogate my brother’s reading habits, but merely to indicate the disparity in our interests.

What Entropy Means to Me (1972)

Now we have the prospect of a religious war on our hands, with the attendant proliferation of “heresies” and two separate but equal inquisitions.

What Entropy Means to Me (1972)

The only negative thing she had to say was that I displayed a tendency to exaggerate the facts for the sake of interesting reading.

What Entropy Means to Me (1972)

Any thought which is printed, either here or in the paper, without subsequent attack is generally believed to be true. This is not so much a logical condition as it is a fault of human nature. A longstanding or constant idea is often equated with a true one.

What Entropy Means to Me (1972)

We tread on unsure ground, theologically. The doctrines are still in the malleable state; what eventually evolves from them will owe its existence not to pre-eminent merit, but to the shrewdness of the compromises made by the factions.

What Entropy Means to Me (1972)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: George Alec Effinger (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.